As a tireless champion for legal services to low-income persons, Ollie served as Board Member and eventually as Vice President of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, one of the largest providers of legal services in the nation. He also served as an appointee of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California to its Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services.

Ollie Cantos as a blind Filipino-American has defied the odds — in more ways than one. Having become blind as the result of medical complications at birth, Ollie was the object of bullying and taunts as a little boy with no self-confidence. He eventually came to defy conventional thinking by rising in prominence to becoming the highest-ranking person with a disability in the United States federal government.